This is monstrous, evil shit "Cemetery officials confirmed to Task & Purpose that the pages were unpublished” to meet recent orders by President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth targeting race and gender-related language and policies in the military."

No words.

Story out today on my new research in the @nytimes.com We find ICE activity in Trump 2.0 hurt the labor market and hurt US-born workers. Article: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/19/r... Paper: www.nber.org/papers/w3512...

"You cannot celebrate European civilization while simultaneously attacking the legal and political order invented here, or while openly seeking to undermine the institutions that protect pluralism and dissent" An answer to Vance and Rubio: www.erstestiftung.org/en/a-speech-...

BIG DAY for me today 1. Went on The Weekend for Bloomberg TV with Christina Ruffini and @davidgura.bsky.social 2. got my first NYT guest essay (with @chadpbown.com) published ...and both by 8am! NYT piece here: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/17/o...

The publisher of my book, How Economics Discovered Women, is providing a 30% discount for online preorders as of today: UCPSAVE30.

My book (!) How Economics Discovered Women is now available for pre-order from the University of California Press. The book is a survey and critique of how the economics of gender has developed since the mid-1970s. www.ucpress.edu/books/how-ec...

Hungarians are singing ‘We Are The Champions’ in celebration of the landslide victory of Peter Magyar

Don’t these people have jobs? Where they are supposed to be working for us? Important things seem to be happening right now, in fact.

Targeting civilian infrastructure is a war crime. Mocking the religion of people you are murdering is unspeakably heinous. Slobbering profanity when you've been entrusted with vast violent power is stomach-churning. These things will harm ALL Conservative and Liberal Americans. They harm us now.

found something rather baffling when researching my column this week… I wanted to see if there was any evidence that AI tools were helping economists to make their research more readable. So I analysed the text of NBER working paper abstracts…

Column is here - first 300 clicks free to read as.ft.com/r/6bffcdf4-5...

This afternoon at UW's 2026 MisinfoDay event, I'm excited to be addressing a wonderful group of K-12 educators about the challenges of teaching AI literacy and the approach that Jevin West, Linsey Kitchens, Liz Crouse, and I have developed to that meet that challenge.

Please please accept or decline requests to review papers immediately upon seeing the request. It's simple. Most people don't have a good reason for being slow (though I realize a few might). It's crazy how many people are slow. They slow down the whole process for no good reason.

My question: How could the US sustain 10% tariffs on imports from the UK? USTR's answer, last night: By complaining about its forced labour practices. Specifically, for failing to shut out imports made with forced labour. ustr.gov/about/policy...

Issuance of F-1 student visas by the United States, to all countries, monthly through August 2025 (latest available). The red line shows the start of the current US Administration. Shutting out the world's talented young people will impoverish the future of every Conservative and Liberal American.

🔵 Democrats flip another seat in the New Hampshire State House. Democrat Bobbi Boudman wins a special election in a Trump+9 district, after losing the same seat by 14 points in 2024. A 13-point Democratic overperformance.

I was in a 2 hour briefing today on the Iran War. All the briefings are closed, because Trump can't defend this war in public. I obviously can't disclose classified info, but you deserve to know how incoherent and incomplete these war plans are. 1/ Here's what I can share:

Seems troubling. More troubling would be the idea that the Administration might have bombed Iran without expecting this.

I was lead amicus on this brief, signed by 13 other expert economists, estimating the economic benefits to the United States of continuing to honor TPS for Haitians —> www.aclunorcal.org/sites/defaul...

Are you a PhD student/postdoc/early-career scholar studying immigration? Want to spend time this summer in Mexico City w other immigration scholars? Apply to the UC Davis Global Migration Center summer school! I'll be there w 3 other amazing economists! globalmigration.ucdavis.edu/summer_school3

Every senator who voted to confirm RFK Jr owns this tragedy. Every single one.

Open this photo up and look for the small, white dot just left of centre. It looks like Venus, shining brightly in the twilight sky. But it's us. It's Earth. From Mars.

A popular app in Denmark identifies American products so that Danes know not to buy them www.independent.co.uk/tech/us-boyc...

Congrats to BART rider and Oakland legend Alysa Liu on winning a gold medal at the Olympics and making the Bay Area proud!

Hassett on new study from NY Fed showing 90% of tariff burden is being shouldered by US firms & consumers: "The paper is an embarrassment. It's I think the worst paper I've ever seen in the history of the Fed system. The people associated with this paper should presumably be disciplined."

Gee this can’t have anything to do with married women needing passports to vote under the SAVE act could it?

Congress should act to categorically exempt statistical agency staff from this schedule. Statistical agencies by definition do not set policy. Their only power and purpose is collecting data & publishing credible, informative stats. Without political independence, they can't do this.

1/Universities need to systematically address the findings in the Epstein files. In my opinion, every university in which current or past faculty, administrators, trustees appear in the files, should establish formal bodies to review and assess. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/06/u...

"Tell me you know nothing about the Muppets without telling me you know nothing about the Muppets."

Sharing screenshots of your canceled subscriptions inspires others to Resist and Unsubscribe.

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet

Disturbing chart. More than forty years ago, I completed an undergrad degree in modern history and economics. Still think that combination was the greatest education/preparation to understand (and in my case write about) the world.

"I have concerns about Kevin Warsh leading the Federal Reserve. Many have roots in his time at the Fed." stayathomemacro.substack.com/p/kevin-warsh

I wrote this song on Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you today in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis. It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good. Stay free

📢now forthcoming in ECMA! The Class Gap in Career Progression: Evidence from US Academia Class is rarely a focus of research or DEI in elite US occupations. Evidence suggests it should be: we find a large class gap in at least one occupation - tenure-track academia...🧵

There's a little less than a week until 1 February, when submissions to this year's ESPE conference in Helsinki (11-13 June) are due! More info here: espe2026.org Submit papers here: app.oxfordabstracts.com/stages/79627...

Some thoughts: 1. The deadline for nominating a person or group for the Nobel Peace Prize is Feb. 1. 2. History professors are qualified nominators. 3. The people of Minnesota have been awe-inspiringly peaceful in the face of state violence. 4. He would be so mad.

The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.” That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.

Defenceless under the night Our world in stupor lies; Yet, dotted everywhere, Ironic points of light Flash out wherever the Just Exchange their messages: May I, composed like them Of Eros and of dust, Beleaguered by the same Negation and despair, Show an affirming flame. — W.H. Auden, Sept. 1, 1939

Sky News: Danish PM Mette Freideriksen’s note in the visitors book when she visited UK today

I know I don't have a ton of media followers, but I'll put this out there anyway: if you need someone to comment/offer context on the removal of the slavery exhibit at the President's House site in Philly, get in touch. I just finished an entire book on Americans' fight over Washington and slavery.

Yes, he heard what Trump said.

This is one of the sharpest analyses of international affairs that I've heard from a Canadian leader - or any national leader - in a long time. And I suspect he wrote the main bits himself. paulwells.substack.com/p/the-carney...